Sales Assistant

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with passion and imagination, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions. There’s much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 16,000 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with. 
In France, discover the empowered passionate professionals who made history creating our legendary perfumery school. Feel the heritage. Acquire knowledge and experience, gained in our renowned European Creation Centre, or from any of our 17 innovative sites across the country. Every day, your commitment, your humility, and your risk-taking will shape our future. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.

Overall objective
•    Contribute to the account strategy execution in collaboration with respective Account Managers for the assigned client portfolio
•    Support the sales team by efficiently managing client requests and ensuring smooth communication and information flow
•    Ensure a high quality client service and relationship reinforcing Givaudan’s perception as a preferred partner and contributing to the business growth of the client.
•    Build and maintain strong relationships internal stakeholders
•    Coordinate development projects from project entry to completion, ensuring a smooth flow of information, samples, product data, and quotations.

Main responsibilities
Project management support: Actively support the KAMs in the project process, such as:
•    Registering the projects in the internal system making sure all the parameters are correct. Making sure samples are shipped, honouring the deadlines
•    Ensure price maintenance : create quotations, register NBOs and answer price workflow on a daily basis
•    Preparing full submission package for the clients (incl. submission deck, pricing tables, regulatory & technical documentation)
•    Maintaining the project pipeline clean and up-to-date

Functional skills and requirements

•    5 years of experience in the fragrance industry
•    Fluent in French and English
•    Strong communication and interpersonal skills
•    Strong customer service and decision making skills
•    Strong organizational skills and time management
•    Detailed orientated and accurate
•    Project management skills
•    Problem solving skills
•    Flexibility and agility
•    Listening skills
•    Learning agility 
•    Ability to deliver quality work under pressure and prioritize to meet deadlines
•    Proficient with key IT applications - MS Office suite

Professional competencies 
•    Customer Focus
•    Problem Solving / Solution Oriented
•    Team player
•    Demonstrates Self Awareness
•    Drives Results
•    Decision Quality
•    Nimble Learning

At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people’s lives.
You work within an inspiring teamwork culture – where you can thrive, collaborate and learn from other talented and passionate people across disciplines, regions and divisions.
Every essence of you enriches our world.
Diversity drives innovation and creates closer connections with our employees, customers and partners.
Givaudan embraces diversity and is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone impacts our world.